Apple 'Cox's Orange Pippin' - Cordon, 8L pot

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'Cox's Orange Pippin' Dessert Apple Tree - Cordon, 8L Pot

Cox is one of the best in quality of the English dessert apples variety. Traditional and reliable, it produces fine crops of fruits that ripen in October and can be stored until January in dry, cold conditions. Its red skinned apples with russet flushes are of medium size and have a crispy, juicy flesh, slightly aromatic and sharp, which become softer and milder as the fruits age. The fruits taste best when eaten out of hand, sliced, or as an addition to salads. They also make a delicious and remarkably refreshing juice with a surprising tang.

Characteristics

Flower Colour: white/pink

Foliage Colour: green

Approx. Growth Height: 2.5-3m

Rootstock: M26 - semi-dwarfing

Comes in a: 8L polypot (not a rigid pot)

Approx. Height on Arrival: 150-170cm

Flowering Period: spring (April - May)

Harvesting Period: October

Season of Use: October - January

Tolerance: frost tolerant, fairly drought tolerant once established

Growing Habit: bush, cordon, espalier, fan

Uses: eating fresh

Hardiness: fully hardy

Exposure: sheltered

Rate of Growth: fast

Scented: barely

Wildlife friendly - attracts bees and other pollinating insects

Requirements

Light Requirements: full sun

Soil Requirements: almost all normal garden soil with pH 6.5 - 7.5

Moisture: moist, well-drained, moderately fertile

Caring and Maintenance

Water young trees regularly until roots are well established. Trim annually from mid to late summer. Apply some fertilizer in spring in order to promote healthy growth and a good crop. Optionally, mulch in spring. Check tree ties regularly and loosen any if necessary to avoid rubbing of the stems.

Planting

Planting Distance: 4m

Suited to almost all well-drained and moderately fertile soils with pH between 6.5 and 7.5 in a sheltered, full sun location. Before planting your tree, clean up all wandering weeds and keep a clean ring around the tree base. Dig a hole approximately a third wider than the root ball. Carefully yet firmly backfill the remaining soil around the root ball and water well during the first year until well established.

Autumn is the best season for planting fruiting trees, as the soil moisture and heat allow easier and faster root establishment and regeneration of damaged root systems.

Pollination

Pollination Group: 3

Each fruiting tree has ideal pollination partners. These are divided into groups and are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, according to flowering time. Best results will be obtained if variety is planted near another apple tree of the same group, or from a group on either side (so an ideal pollination partner for group 3 would be one in group 2, 3 or 4). In normal suburban planting, apples are usually planted in large numbers to give adequate pollination. The major cause of poor pollination is bad weather in blossom time, limiting the activity of insects.

These fruits taste best when freshly picked from their branches. They please even the most sophisticated of palates, and can be made into jams and preserves to bring great summer memories on autumn or winter days. Fruit plants are a valuable addition to any garden, bearing in mind that they do not only provide fruits, but also make a bold statement in garden arrangements by producing clouds of pink and white flowers, which at the slightest breeze fall like raindrops. When planning your garden, try to choose varieties with fruits that ripen from early summer to late autumn to ensure a constant supply of fresh fruits throughout the warmer months.

Fruit Tree Rootstocks

Fruit trees are generally budded or grafted onto a rootstock by the nursery, this means the roots of the tree are a different plant to the trunk, branches and fruit. Effectively sticking two plants together, one that has good roots and one that has good fruit, ensures that you get what you pay for. Plants raised from seed will vary from the parent plants and there will be a wide variation in the size or shape of a tree and the quality and quantity of fruit it produces. Another result of budding and grafting a variety onto selected rootstocks is the ability to control the size of the tree to a certain degree. However, the size that a fruit tree ultimately grows to is dependent on a number of factors:

The fruit variety ( i.e. Apple Braeburn)

How itís pruned

Soil type

Position

Its rootstock

Some varieties of tree are naturally more vigorous than others, so this will affect how much they grow each year. For instance a Bramley Apple seedling will naturally grow bigger than a Coxís Orange Pippin Apple seedling. The correct pruning will also help to control the size of tree, as well as encouraging it to produce flower buds from which fruit develop.

This is a typical example of our root wrapped trees that you will receive - note the fruit/ornamental trees we stock will vary in appearance according to species and season. Please be aware that the compost around the roots is there just to keep them moist and will fall away when unwrapped, leaving a bare-rooted plant. You can mix this compost with your soil when planting your tree.